Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, minestrone soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have minestrone soup using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Minestrone Soup:
- Prepare 2 tbsp. olive oil
- Take 1 tbsp. unsalted butter
- Prepare 2 large carrots, peeled and diced
- Get 2 stalks celery, diced
- Get 1/2 yellow onion, diced
- Prepare 4 cloves garlic, minced
- Take 1/4 cup (2 oz.) tomato paste
- Make ready 1/2 tsp. each oregano, dried basil
- Prepare 1/4 tsp. ground thyme
- Make ready 1 can (28 oz.) fire roasted crushed tomatoes
- Take 4 cups unsalted vegetable broth
- Prepare 2 bay leaves
- Prepare 3/4 tsp. salt
- Prepare 1/4 tsp. pepper
- Get 2 small potatoes, scrubbed and diced
- Prepare 1 zucchini, diced
- Make ready 1 yellow squash, diced
- Take 1 can (15 oz.) unsalted cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
- Make ready 1 cup ditalini pasta (or other small shape)
- Take 2 heaping cups spinach, roughly chopped
Italian Minestrone soup is made with seasonal veggies, legumes and small pasta shape or rice. The beauty of this soup is that you can make it a hundred times and have it taste different every time you make it. heat the oil in a large saucepan. Add the onion, garlic, celery and fry gently till translucent. Add the root vegetables, and stir well to seal them so they do not turn mushy.
Instructions to make Minestrone Soup:
- In a large pot over medium heat, add the olive oil and the butter. Once it's hot and the butter has melted, stir in the onions, celery and carrot with a big pinch of salt. Cook, stirring occasionally until they have begun to soften up, about 3-5 minutes. Then stir in the tomato paste, garlic, oregano, thyme and basil. Cook about 2-3 minutes more, stirring pretty often.
- Pour a bit of the broth in and deglaze the pan. Then the rest with the crushed tomatoes and bay leaves. Increase the heat to med-high and let this come up to a simmer. Once its simmering, stir in the beans, potatoes, zucchini and yellow squash along with the salt and pepper. Let this all simmer together until the veggies are all tender. Last, take out the bay leaves and stir in the chopped spinach and let it wilt down. Taste and add more salt, pepper, etc until you're happy with the flavor.
- While the soup is coming to a simmer, heat a separate pot of salted water over high heat. Once its boiling, cook the ditalini pasta according to package directions, then drain and set it aside until the soup is done.
- To serve, you can stir the cooked pasta into the soup, or if you're going to have a lot of leftovers, you can just keep them separate and add the pasta to individual bowls and pour the soup over top of it… that way the pasta won't absorb all the liquid.
Add the onion, garlic, celery and fry gently till translucent. Add the root vegetables, and stir well to seal them so they do not turn mushy. Add the remaining vegetables, and ingredients except the bacon and pasta. Heat the oil in a large pot. Stir in courgette, tomatoes, stock and water.
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